Jesus Camp

[Scrapheap]

I hit the Catholics & the Methodists too. Would have hit more but it was a small town without alot of variety. 

Curiousity, that and we had a couple of awesome old Catholic churches that I really had to see the insides of. I've always had a thing for old buildings & houses, that's how it began.  :lol:

The Catholic Churches in Europe are AWSOME!!!  That, and Abbey Ale are the 2 things the Catholic Church got right. 

["couldbecousin"]

I was a fundamentalist Christian, for about 5 weeks in 1996. 

You being a fundi was an epic fail, or it would have lasted longer. 

Yes, what soured me on the church was that the pastor couldn't explain a confusing Bible passage to me, and justified his failure
by saying something like "Sometimes when you chew on a piece of Scripture, it begins to chew on you," meaning, I guess, that
despite the Bible being the literal word of God, if you find something you don't understand, you can just ignore it! Wow! 


I hated the whole hell-and-damnation thing, but the pastor's making a lame excuse for his inability to explain
the very book he preached about was kind of my ticket out of there.   

What got you into it?

I read one of those dire paperbacks that link world events to the Book of Revelation,
and was sufficiently traumatized to take it seriously. 

['Butterflies']

I was a fundamentalist Christian, for about 5 weeks in 1996. 

You being a fundi was an epic fail, or it would have lasted longer. 

Yes, what soured me on the church was that the pastor couldn't explain a confusing Bible passage to me, and justified his failure
by saying something like "Sometimes when you chew on a piece of Scripture, it begins to chew on you," meaning, I guess, that
despite the Bible being the literal word of God, if you find something you don't understand, you can just ignore it! Wow! 


I hated the whole hell-and-damnation thing, but the pastor's making a lame excuse for his inability to explain
the very book he preached about was kind of my ticket out of there.   

What got you into it?

I read one of those dire paperbacks that link world events to the Book of Revelation,
and was sufficiently traumatized to take it seriously. 

I had a friend once who kept trying to get me to read all that type of stuff He's now involved in running some wierd cultish church. The funny thing is his little sister is now a semi-famous streaker, and lap dancer She was such a bitch. I bet he is dying of shame about her

[Squidusa]

I was a fundamentalist Christian, for about 5 weeks in 1996. 

You being a fundi was an epic fail, or it would have lasted longer. 

Yes, what soured me on the church was that the pastor couldn't explain a confusing Bible passage to me, and justified his failure
by saying something like "Sometimes when you chew on a piece of Scripture, it begins to chew on you," meaning, I guess, that
despite the Bible being the literal word of God, if you find something you don't understand, you can just ignore it! Wow! 


I hated the whole hell-and-damnation thing, but the pastor's making a lame excuse for his inability to explain
the very book he preached about was kind of my ticket out of there.   

What got you into it?

I read one of those dire paperbacks that link world events to the Book of Revelation,
and was sufficiently traumatized to take it seriously. 

I had a friend once who kept trying to get me to read all that type of stuff He's now involved in running some wierd cultish church. The funny thing is his little sister is now a semi-famous streaker, and lap dancer She was such a bitch. I bet he is dying of shame about her

His sister is awesome in my eyes just for annoying her brother  :lol:

['Butterflies']

I was a fundamentalist Christian, for about 5 weeks in 1996. 

You being a fundi was an epic fail, or it would have lasted longer. 

Yes, what soured me on the church was that the pastor couldn't explain a confusing Bible passage to me, and justified his failure
by saying something like "Sometimes when you chew on a piece of Scripture, it begins to chew on you," meaning, I guess, that
despite the Bible being the literal word of God, if you find something you don't understand, you can just ignore it! Wow! 


I hated the whole hell-and-damnation thing, but the pastor's making a lame excuse for his inability to explain
the very book he preached about was kind of my ticket out of there.   

What got you into it?

I read one of those dire paperbacks that link world events to the Book of Revelation,
and was sufficiently traumatized to take it seriously. 

I had a friend once who kept trying to get me to read all that type of stuff He's now involved in running some wierd cultish church. The funny thing is his little sister is now a semi-famous streaker, and lap dancer She was such a bitch. I bet he is dying of shame about her

His sister is awesome in my eyes just for annoying her brother  :lol:

It is funny what she does. She's streaked at Wimbledon, and Lords . She was a horrid, horrid girl though. I could never stand her. I would almost say that I hated her.

[Scrapheap]

What got you into it?

I read one of those dire paperbacks that link world events to the Book of Revelation,
and was sufficiently traumatized to take it seriously. 

That easy to do though. Much of the book of Revelation is writen in metaphors that can be interpreted any way you want. The rest of it is vauge or obvious stuff that will happen sooner or later anyways.

FWIW, the island of Patamos, where John was from, is covered in halucinigenic mushrooms.
That should explain the book of Revelations better than anything else.